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My Mum drinks bottled Guinness from the cupboard at room temperature. She refuses to cool it. Can't blame her really, draught Guinness is served far too cold and doesn't allow the complexity of the roasted grains to come out at all.

Is your mother from Waterford by any chance? For some reason, the large bottle off the shelf is still a common order in that neck of the woods.

I have been stuck in a GAA club bar in county Waterford and praised the gods for that tradition. It meant I could drink beer.

Noby will tell you about the pub that has several different temperatures of pint bottles of Guinness. Not just cooler and shelf.

Warm or cold, the bottled Guinness is a completly different drink to the draft. The roasted flavour is really to the fore.

The Large bottle of Guinness Extra Stout is very popular here alright. Off the shelf being the 'proper' way to drink it.

As Séan said, my wife used to work in one of the local pubs here. A traditional shop in the front, pub in the back arrangement.
Their large bottles came in four different temperatures:
From the shelf; from the crate; from the store; and from the fridge.

The Guinness from the crate had just been brought in from the store, and were ideal temperature. To order a bottle from the store out the back you had to be a regular for at least 90 years, it seems.

My Mum's a Dub but spent a decade or two living in England, where I was born. She used to keep a crate of Guinness under her hospital bed that my Dad kept topped up. The old fashioned matron on the ward greatly approved of a small bottle a day and lectured the other women on the ward about the benefits, so my Dad says. Can't see that going down too well nowadays.....

"Hendrixcat":ed759f8w wrote: She used to keep a crate of Guinness under her hospital bed that my Dad kept topped up. The old fashioned matron on the ward greatly approved of a small bottle a day and lectured the other women on the ward about the benefits, so my Dad says. Can't see that going down too well nowadays.....[/quote:ed759f8w]
When I was in hospital(s) in England for a few months about 13 years ago I had no problems drinking beer in hospital. The nurses said it wasn't a problem as long as you weren't on antibiotics or strong painkillers. So for my last ~6 weeks in hospital in Banbury while I was just waiting for bone to mend + physiotherapy I had a regular supply of beers from my mates. <!-- s:lol: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" alt="" title="Laughing" /><!-- s:lol: -->

In the early days after my accident (hit by a car) I wasn't in a fit state to worry about beer anyway...and there was the morphine of course, <!-- s:wink: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!-- s:wink: -->